Today is Friday, December 2, the 336th day of 2011. There are 29 days left in the year.
1620 ― English language newspaper ``Namloos" begins publishing in Amsterdam
1804 ― Napoleon Bonaparte crowned first emperor of France in Paris by Pope Pius VII
1823 ― President James Monroe declares his ``Monroe Doctrine"
1883 ― Johannes Brahms' 3rd Symphony in F, premieres
1917 ― Han Yong-un, found Zen awakening at Oseam Monastery, Korea
1927 ― First Model A Fords sold, for $385
1929 ― First skull of Peking man found, 50 km out of Peking at Tsjoe Koe Tien
1961 ― Fidel Castro declares he's a Marxist and will lead Cuba to Communism
1968 ― President Nixon names Henry Kissinger security advisor
1982 ― First permanent artificial heart successfully implanted (University of Utah) in retired dentist Barney Clark; lived 112 days with the Jarvic-7 heart